Oil is one of the world’s most followed commodities for obvious reasons. The widely used measurement of crude oil is the barre. Have you ever wondered what is produced from a barrel of oil? The following graphic has the answers. It is fascinating to see that gasoline yield is less than half of a barrel …
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The banking sector is one of the worst performing sectors year-to-date. The effects of the banking crisis earlier this year are still being felt by the banks and to add to the pain, rising interest rates have only made it worse. The S&P 500 is up by just over 10% YTD on price basis as …
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China was admitted to the World Trade Organization(WTO) on almost 22 years ago on Dec 11, 2001. It took 15 years of negotiations for China to be admitted as a full member. According to Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Partners and author of the book “The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators”, …
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based in Geneva, Switzerland publishes the World Investment Report each year. This report offers a comprehensive review of flow of funds between countries called Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), industries attracting major investments, developed vs emerging and transition economies, etc. One section of the report that I …
Equity markets have sustained multiple crises over the years and continue to go higher. Though equity markets tend to plunge dramatically when negative events occur they eventually tend to recover slowly. I have written in the past on how US markets have recovered after crises. Some of them can be found here and here and …